Not quite. It's more about assimilation than simple conquest. There's a good discussion of this in the intro to Hugh Thomas's "The English & the Normans", page 6 onwards (it's available online through google book search at http://tinyurl.com/6ljma5
Though if you want to limit it to purely the anglo/african issue, it doesn't seem unreasonable to date this to the start of the 19th century (Abolition of Slave Trade Act 1807, Abolition of Slavery Act 1833). Presumably race cropped up somewhere in the parliamentary On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aren't these a bit different than conversations about race? > In all the cases below, there were wars involved, and the conquerers did > not trouble themselves about conversations about race. > > -- Owen > > >
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